Vocabulary
Someone who lives off the land and finds their food is known as a...
Hunter-Gatherer
Which discovery was used for cooking food, making tools, providing light, protection from animals, and staying warm
Fire
Why were hunter-gatherers nomads?
To find food like animals to hunt or plants to gather
What did people discover so they were able to start living in permanent settlements?
Farming
Because not everyone had to hunt or gather people were able to do what they're good at. We call this...
Specialized labor or specialized jobs
The time in history before there was writing is called
Prehistory
Who used basic stone tools for hunting and survival?
Hunter-Gatherers
What were the different job roles of men and women in hunter gatherer societies?
Men hunted animals in large groups and women gathered plants, seeds, and nuts.
What did people begin to domesticate that made finding food easier?
Animals
What tools were used during the introduction of agriculture?
water wheels and plows
People who move around from place to place find edible grains or food/animals are called...
Nomads
What did hunter gatherers discover that changed the way they lived?
Farming and agriculture
Archeologists have found these to be the first form of art from the Old Stone Age
Cave Paintings
What do we call it when people have EXTRA food
Surplus
What did settlers choose to live near?
River or water
What is the first time period when humans lived and used stone tools?
The Old Stone Age
Dams, canals, water wheels, and plows are all examples of...
Irrigation Systems
What did people build to control the flooding of the rivers and bring water to their crops?
Irrigation Systems
What is the word that means to change animals or plants to make them more useful to humans.
Domesticate
Bones from animals and plants from the past are known as (BLANK), while man-made objects from the past, tools are known as (BLANK)
Fossils
Artifacts
What were some NEGATIVE effects of people living close together and farming?
Hunter-gatherers first migrated out of which continent before settling?
Africa